Advanced Clinical Practitioner

An exciting career opportunity has arisen in Frailty within the Emergency Division at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner Band 8a (trainee applicants welcome Band 7).

The role provides specialist assessment and management of frail older adults across our Frailty Assessment Area, Emergency department, Care of the elderly wards and Medical Day case unit under the supervision of a dynamic and supportive consultant body.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop new clinical experience, skills and knowledge across the entire spectrum of acute frailty and medical presentations.

Successful candidates will have an MSc in advanced practice or for trainee posts be expected to complete the programme.
Applicants should have a friendly, compassionate and sensitive manner with a genuine desire and passion to help people. As this is a challenging role you must have the ability to demonstrate patience and empathy, with a good range of clinical skills, inspiring confidence and trust to all patients.

The post-holder will exercise advanced clinical skills, levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in clinical care, demonstrated and supported by, professional portfolio evidence.

You will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team and allied specialties to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the provision of accessible, high-quality clinical care at Warwick Hospital.

Clinical duties may include a combination of shifts in the Frailty Assessment Area, Emergency Department, Care of the elderly wards and working in Medical Day Case Unit in falls clinic or delivering Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for individuals. Shifts include regular evening, weekend and bank holiday working.

During winter months and at other times of high demand, the post-holder will provide care to and expedite the discharge of patients autonomously utilising criteria-led discharge process.

You will have a critical role in new processes to improve patient flow and rapid streaming of frailty referrals to the most appropriate assessment area.

The post-holders will be expected to contribute significantly to clinical governance, audit, research, training and education, providing leadership to the clinical team in one or more of these areas.

The post includes 20% of contracted hours dedicated to the 3 non-clinical pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, leadership, education and research. For trainee ACPs this 20% is for study time to complete the MSc programme.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
***We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.***
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Abigail Taylor Job title: Lead ACP Frailty Email address: Telephone number:

Katie Golby

Operational Manager - Frailty